Amy Hackett and her husband, Stoney McMurray, last spring took this photo of cars with Iowa license plates parked on their street in the Ditmas Park West neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York.

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Why are all those rental cars with Iowa license plates hogging so many parking spaces along the streets in a nice neighborhood of Victorian homes in Brooklyn, New York?

That's what Joel Siegel, president of the Ditmas Park West Neighborhood Association, wants to know. He's written to the Iowa Department of Transportation, the Iowa Insurance Division and New York government administrators and politicians trying to get some answers.

Maj. Paul Steier, commander of the Iowa DOT's motor vehicle enforcement investigative unit, says Iowa investigators are working with New York authorities ...